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14 drivers with the most all-time wins at Michigan

The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series has been racing at Michigan International Speedway since 1969, where Cale Yarborough won the first race in a ’69 Mercury for the Wood Brothers.

Bill Elliott is another driver who had immense success at Michigan, including winning four in a row in the mid-80s.

Over the years, the Cup Series has visited Michigan 95 times and seen plenty of different winners on the two-mile track.

Check out the 14 drivers who have won at least three times in the Irish Hills:

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Davey Allison, 3 wins

Allison found quick success on the fast two-mile speedway with a win in 1988, followed by wins in 1991 and 1992.

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Bobby Labonte, 3

Labonte swept the 1995 races at Michigan and added one more victory at the track in 1999. He found a ton of success on the intermediate speedways like Michigan and Atlanta.

Jeff Gordon, 3

After scoring wins at Michigan in 1998 and 2001, Gordon went 13 years before making his way back to Victory Lane in 2014.

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Matt Kenseth, 3

Kenseth became the most recent driver to hit the three-win total at Michigan. His first win came in 2002, second in 2006, and latest in 2015.

Kurt Busch, 3

The elder Busch brother scored his third win in the early 2015 race and was tied by Kenseth with three wins in the later race. Busch’s first two wins came in 2003 and 2007.

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Bobby Allison, 4

Allison was one of the earliest winners at Michigan and became the first driver to pull of the season sweep in 1971. It was 10 years before he went back to Victory Lane, adding another win in 1981 and 1982.

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Richard Petty, 4

The King had success at every track he drove on. While he definitely had better, he notched a handful of wins at Michigan. His wins came in 1974, 1975, 1979, and 1981.

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Dale Jarrett, 4

Jarrett’s success at Michigan spread over a 10-year period with wins in 1991, 1996, 1999, and 2002.

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Greg Biffle, 4

Biffle had two strong stretches at Michigan and it served as his best track. He won back-to-back races in 2004-05 and 2012-13.

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Rusty Wallace, 5

While Rusty Wallace was known as a stud on the short tracks, he found consistent success at Michigan. His first win came in 1988 and his final in 2000.

Mark Martin, 5

Martin holds the record for the biggest gap between wins at Michigan. His first victory came in 1990 with his final triumph coming in 2009.

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Bill Elliott, 7

When you see that his son, Chase, finished second in both Michigan races last season, you remember where he learned it from. Awesome Bill loved to go fast and the two-mile speedway provided a ton of opportunity for that. Elliott’s seven wins included a stretch of four straight in 1985-86.

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Cale Yarborough, 8

Yarborough scored the first victory at Michigan in 1969 and dominated the track for years along with our No. 1 winner on this list. While Yarborough and David Pearson were racking up 17 wins at the track, the rest of the circuit only won 12 races at Michigan in the 13-year period between Yarborough’s first and last victory in the Irish Hills.

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David Pearson, 9

Pearson won the second race at Michigan in 1969 and then scored three in a row in 1972-73. He went on to win seven of nine during that stretch with only Richard Petty preventing him from winning every race over the three-year period from 1972-75.